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A GGP team in Atlanta is working on the ideas, which will be
considered hy GGP brass this
summer, said Valley Hills General Manager Mike Ruddy.
"Within the next six months,
you're going to see and hear a lot
from Valley Hills Mall," Ruddy
said.
To help create more seats in
the food court. GGP is considering moving it from its first floor
location to a larger space on the
second floor near Sears. That
move means GGP will be able to
more than double the number of
seats to 550 and add three more
eateries, bringing the total to 10.
Clearing the food court's original location will then make space
for new stores.
GGP is also serious about a
fourth major department store,
an addition shoppers have
wanted to add to the existing mix
of Belk, Sears and JC Penney.
Preliminary sketches show the
store on the back side of the mall
between Sears and Penneys.
Such an addition could leave
11,000 leftover square feet for
more shops.
Shoppers may have noticed the
dust around Sears. Construction
has started on a 39,000-square-
foot expansion to the department
store, with the work to be done by
October. Penneys and Belk have
contemplated similar moves.
Finish Line, an athletics apparel
shop, is moving to the empty
storefront across from the Shoe
Show, beside Belk on the second
level. Claire's Etc. is opening a
shop beside Friedman's Jewelers.
Disc Jockey plans a mid-July
move into a much larger space on
the first floor, where Blockbuster
Music and Julie's clothing store
were.
There have been a few departures, too — Western outfitter
Santa Fe Station and the Complete
Wellness Medical Center.
Best Buy planned behind mall
More news for Catawba Valley
Boulevard.
Best Buy plans to build a
45,000-square-foot store behind
Valley Hills Mall, on property
where the long-rumored — but
not confirmed — Target store, and
possibly a Kohl's department
store, could also be planted.
Already a cineplex, apartment
complex and office park are
planned along the boulevard.
Best Buy hopes to open by next
spring.
Further west on the boulevard,
a developer has submitted plans
to build a housing complex with
180 apartments, 45 townhomes
and 12 single-family homes. The
32-acre proposal is called Iron
Springs Plantation and is up for
review before Hickory's planning
commission Wednesday.
Farmers Market needs space
The Catawba Valley Farmers
Market has been uprooted from
its longtime spot beside the
county fairgrounds on U.S. 70.
The landowner is looking to sell
the property, said market president Elliott Sherrill.
The Newton Board of Aldermen voted Wednesday night to
rent a portion of a City parking lot
on Ashe Avenue, next to the
Southern Bell Building, for $75 a
month to the market.
A meeting next week should
finalize the details, with the market opening for business from 6
a.m. to noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays starting
sometime in June.
Office Depot takes Tags spot
The old Tags site in the Valley
Crossings shopping center on
U.S. 70 in Hickory is finally getting a new tenant.
Office Depot is vacating its digs
in the same shopping center to
move to the bigger space. Renovations are happening now but no
word yet on when the move will
be made.
Belk closed all its Tags outlet
locations last year because of low
profits.
Food Lion at Fiddler's Run
Food Lion is the latest addition
to Fiddler's Run Shopping Center. The 200,000-square-foot center in Morganton will feature five
anchor stores, with four now unveiled; Belk, J.C. Penney, Goody's
and Food Lion. Between 10 and
15 specialty shops and a few
outparcel stores will round out
the center.
Food Lion will assume 38,000
square feet of tbe center. Construction crews broke ground
earlier this month on the center
and hope to finish by next spring.
In other developments...
Bank of Granite opened a
branch this month in Honey's
supermarket in Vale ... Hugh's
Family Restaurant opened last
month for breakfast, lunch and
dinner on 110 S. Main Street in
the town of Catawba. The diner is
open seven days a week . . .
Schlotzky's Dell on U.S. 70 in
Hickory plans to open June 1.
TheLatesi I Jevelopments features
news on rommerr iol, residential and
industrial development around the
Unifour. It appears every other Sunday. Have a tip'* Reach ihe Catawba
Valley Neighbors: bv mail, P.O. Box
2464 Hickory, NC, 28603; by phone.
324-0055; by fax, 327 3480; or by
e-mail, hickOfy@chafiotte.com:,

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